While retired, because of my ongoing interest in the importance of credible, sound science driving public policy and regulation of food safety related issues, I joined with other academic colleagues and helped to found a 501c3 non-profit organization
we call Academics Review.
Not exact matches
So in light of all this, it was with great excitement and nostalgia that I recently received from Kregel
Academic a
review copy of a book
called Jesus the Messiah which was co-authored by Gordon Johnston, Darrel Bock, and Herbert Bateman.
The EPA has dismissed at least five members of a major scientific
review board, the latest signal of what critics
call a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the agency's regulatory reach by reducing the role of
academic research.
Thom Brooks, an
academic at Newcastle University who has led the campaign, told politics.co.uk: «The next step is to
call on others to join us in resigning from the Peer
Review College.
In spring 2015, the boycott grew so large — with parents pulling more than 200,000 students out of testing in English language arts and mathematics, about 20 percent of those eligible statewide — that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo
called for a sweeping
review of the state's
academic standards and exams.
Second, even industry will
review your
academic credentials, so you will still be
called upon to explain the absence of scholarly publications on your CV, or, better, to earn some publications before you leave for industry.
A report released by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee of the U.K. Parliament on Thursday
calls on universities and the government to
review academic career paths and find ways to level the playing field for women.
Elsevier Science, Nature Publishing Group (a sister company to Scientific American, which is not a peer -
reviewed journal), Cell Press and
Academic Press declined interview requests, and Springer Verlag, as well as Allen Press, did not return phone
calls.
Called «Primary care factors and unscheduled secondary care: a series of systematic
reviews», the report has been compiled by researchers from the University's Centre for
Academic Primary Care who looked at evidence from studies around the world.
In a
review of the management of college athletics, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
calls on secondary - school officials to stress
academic preparation of student - athletes.
On one of my visits to CBP's offices, Lettre and a group of staffers were
reviewing a 22 - page lesson — they
called it a «tool» — designed to help schools develop a constantly updated report that charts students»
academic progress.
The Prime Minister Theresa May will launch a post-18 education and funding
review, and
call for more parity between
academic and vocational options.
His amendment to SB 493 doesn't
call for a halt to Common Core implementation, but does
call for a legislative
review of the standards»
academic and financial impacts.
Calling them «data
review days,» teachers would look at how their students were performing on various tests in different subject areas, and then they would share with one another the best practices that were producing positive
academic achievement.
Professor Conroy is among a group of
academics who have
called on Professor Peterson to release his data so they can analyze the results, which were not peer -
reviewed.
This essay aims to
review resources available to parents, who are interested in determining the
academic performance of a prospective elementary magnet, and to expose the lack of easily obtainable information for prospective parents to use in informed decision - making, by examining two common ways parents obtain information about prospective schools: the first is directly from school representatives at school choice fairs or open house events, and the second is from a popular website,
called GreatSchools.
Provide logistical and administrative support integral to efficient grant management such as scheduling check - in
calls, site visits, and follow - up support,
reviewing documentation and reports, and other activities deemed necessary by the Chief
Academic Officer.
They also expressed concern some schools were being persuaded by the appeal of a sales pitch to use various so -
called neuroscience based teaching methods or products which had not been rigorously and scientifically tested and for which there was no peer -
reviewed evidence they helped raise
academic achievement.
WEAC President Ron Martin sits on the Great Lakes Board of Directors and shares this
academic review exposing a so -
called study funded by the Walton Family Foundation
calling for more privately run charter school funding in New York City.
By the sector: The
call for abstracts and peer -
review process by WindEurope and EAWE members ensures a unique blend of relevant
academic and industry content giving you the latest developments in the sector, from lab to field.
Professor William Happer, who sits on the
Academic Advisory Council of the GWPF, was asked by undercover reporters if he could put a (fictional) oil - industry - funded report through the same peer
review process as previous GWPF foundation reports that had been
called «thoroughly peer
reviewed.»
For example, one author on the anti-geoengineering blog «Bye Bye Blue Sky» notes research on the consolidation of
academic publishing by five or six corporations, quoting a Nobel Laureate who
calls the peer
review system «corrupt.»
And knew well that they so -
called validation by the
academic committees that were convened to
review climategate engaged in a cover up.
Making his pitch in the UK Constitutional Law Blog, he lamented that the wikipedia article on the UK constitution, first port of
call for many a lay person (and law student in a hurry), «would not pass a peer
review process for an
academic journal and nor would it receive a good mark as an undergraduate essay (though I suspect it has been cut and pasted into some over the years)».
They do have a number of other newsletters (often
called «
Review» or «Law
Review») but nothing quite so «
academic».